While the scythe had implanted itself in the ogre-like monster’s hands, right before they were about to pierce its neck, Lucy had soared through the air.
And got next to the monster, with her hammer drawn back.
The monster seemed to notice what was going on.
“Wait!”
Unfortunately for the monster, Lucy did not wait. Her hammer shot forth, slamming against one end of the blade with a dull thump.
With that, the scythe pierced through the monster’s hands cleanly, before seamlessly going through its neck as well.
The monster’s head and fingers landed on the floor with rather splotchy sounds while the body slowly tilted backward before slamming down onto the ground as well.
And the very moment they had killed the monster, both Oliver and Lucy had rushed over to one of the arms.
Oliver pulled back his chain and scythe before grabbing one end to peel off the flesh that was on the monster’s body. Then from there, he split it in two, giving one to Lucy.
Kairos had already somewhat expected what they were going to do, but was still surprised when he saw both of them nonchalantly begin eating the flesh from the monster. As for the corpse that was on the ground, it rapidly began disappearing.
“You uh… aren’t afraid of any drawbacks?”
Oliver wiped his bloody mouth using his sleeve.
“What? The drawbacks aren’t a big deal for us right now. This is the only way to actually have a proper meal.”
Kairos’ eyelid twitched.
“I suppose I can’t say too much as I’ve eaten some monsters before myself.”
Lucy chuckled. She smiled genuinely, but it looked rather creepy because of the blood splattered across her face.
“And we’ve eaten people before as well. Before everyone turned into big red things.”
Kairos blinked a few times.
“…You did?”
Oliver shrugged his shoulders.
“If you care so much about what other people tell you is right, you aren’t going to survive very long.”
Kairos smiled bitterly.
“I guess that’s true…”
With that, he turned around and began running in the direction that Oliver had pointed out to him earlier, the way to Darren.
Kairos hardly held back, running swiftly through the mist. If it wasn’t for his future vision, he might’ve crashed into something along the way since he could only see one hundred meters ahead of himself.
Though there were only occasional rocks that appeared and were quite small, so at most it would be a tripping hazard.
Kairos ended up traveling farther than he expected. He began wondering if he had missed Darren just barely, but that was when he saw a trail of blood.
It rapidly disappeared just as he had seen it, but Kairos had seen it nonetheless.
Since it led in the same direction he was already going, Kairos simply followed it.
And eventually came across Darren.
He was standing, but clearly in a pretty bad mess. The nails that he carried before were embedded into the flesh and organs of his own chest, which was already deformed from Kairos’ pulse spell.
From the way he was slightly swaying and the blood all around him, Darren seemed to be on the verge of death.
Nonetheless, he was still alive.
In fact, Darren was working on slowly pulling the nails out of his body, using his trembling hands.
Without too much hesitation, Kairos dashed forth, pulling back his spear like a sword.
Darren noticed this practically immediately, while a rather distraught expression was on his face.
“Wait, please wait!”
Kairos raised an eyebrow and was already on the verge of losing the patience he mustered up to listen.
“What?”
Darren coughed up blood, before hurrying to speak.
“Please don’t kill me! It’s not like I can even do anything anyway! Just look at me!”
Kairos was hardly moved, and Darren could clearly see that. As such, he quickly followed up with another plea.
“I can use all of my points for whatever you want to get, I have five right now, so you can buy whatever you want with them.”
Kairos raised an eyebrow, before remembering something he was able to do.
There was a blurry status panel next to Darren. After that, he extended his future vision for a brief moment.
[Status]
[Floor Level: 1]
[Dungeon Currency: 11]
Kairos clicked his tongue.
“Lying even when your life is at stake, huh? That must mean you are confident in taking revenge.”
Darren’s eyes widened considerably.
“What? But how do you-”
Before he could say anything more, Kairos’ spear swept forth and horizontally split the man in half.
Darren’s eyes widened in horror as the top half of his body splattered against the floor.
Then, they fell limp.
[Killed Creature – 0.1 points awarded]
[Dungeon Bonus – 0.4 points awarded]
[Dungeon Currency Transfer – 11 added]
Kairos took a short glance at the system notifications before realizing that he now could gain more evolution points if he bought them. He felt a little awkward, since he resolved himself so completely to never come back, yet now he had a very good reason to do exactly that.
Kairos sighed before roughly guessing the location of the exit to this place before running there.
Before long, he found himself back at the entrance.
As for Ines, she was nowhere to be seen.
Kairos raised an eyebrow and assumed he must’ve missed her. And now, he could’ve easily ran over to the place with all the doors which was his initial goal.
However, he was quite bothered by the feeling of having an enemy that was alive.
With that said, Kairos also realistically felt her chances of making it out of this dungeon alive were also quite slim. Thus it wouldn’t be too big of a deal to try out the doors, and hopefully get out.
Yet, as much as logic told him what he should’ve done, Kairos found himself turning around and going back into the bloody path, getting covered by the strange mist once more.
He had no idea how he was supposed to find her other than running aimlessly, so he did just that.
And so, he traversed the misty place blindly.
After ten minutes or so of running, he couldn’t help but think about how sparse the monsters were in this place. What he initially imagined was that there would be quite a few monsters, to the point where a swarm could happen.
However, that was clearly not the case.
As those thoughts were filling his mind, he ended up hearing the sounds of battle in the distance once more. He decided to go towards those sounds without too much thought, and by the time he got there, he witnessed another giant monster falling down to the ground.
Its head had exploded, leaving only its body on the floor.
And there were two people floating above it. Lucy and Oliver.
Lucy spared a glance at Kairos.
“Sorry, there’s no kill for you to steal here.”
Kairos massaged his temple with the tip of his finger.
“Ah, no… I’m just trying to find and kill this girl called Ines.”
Oliver blinked a few times.
“Huh. You seem pretty vengeful. What could she have even done to make you want to kill her this badly?”
Kairos tilted his head to the side.
“…I just don’t like keeping enemies alive.”
Lucy rolled her eyes.
“You have such low confidence in your own strength and growth that you think they will eventually come back and kill you?”
Kairos shrugged his shoulders.
“It’s more the fact that I find it annoying not to tie up loose ends.”
Oliver looked at him strangely before pointing off in a direction.
“Then just go there, and you’ll find her if you aren’t too slow.”
Lucy glared at Oliver.
“You didn’t even try to ask for something?”
Oliver closed his eyes and turned away.
“It’s a waste of time to wait, if anything.”
Lucy clicked her tongue.
“Even so, giving help for free…”
Kairos hesitated for a moment, before extending his future vision to see the status of the two before him.
[Status]
[Floor Level: 1]
[Dungeon Currency: 134]
[Status]
[Floor Level: 1]
[Dungeon Currency: 133]
Kairos’ eyebrow twitched when he saw such an exaggeratedly high amount of points. He guessed that there must’ve been quite a few monsters in this place before, but these two twins must’ve killed nearly all of them.
He shook his head, deciding to hurry off over to Ines.
And just as Oliver said, he soon came across Ines, who was currently breathing heavily to herself. She was holding the side of her head with frustration, seemingly unaware that the claws were digging into her scalp.
For now, Ines seemed unaware of Kairos’ presence.
He saw an opportunity through that.
Kairos stuck out his hand, keeping his four fingers together. Mana began gathering towards the tips of his fingers, charging up to become a gale spell.
After a few seconds, the faint sound of whipping wind could be heard from his fingers.
Combined with the spells he had casted previously, Kairos quickly found himself nearly out of mana.
He decided that he needed to add points into his mana capacity later. Doing so right now might starve him to death, which he wasn’t really fond of right now.
Kairos narrowed his eyes, then released the gale spell.
It hardly made a sound as it shot through the air, and other than a slight distortion in the mist, it was completely invisible.
Ines just barely noticed it in time, bringing her arm up to block.
An ear-piercing crack resounded.
Ines immediately cried out in pain, but immediately reigned it in. Her arm had bent severely, almost like it had another joint.
She was still partially transformed into a monster, and when she turned to look at Kairos, her eyes told exactly the same story. Ines looked like her mentality had completely devolved into one of a beast.
Though, her skin was still far from red, like how other monsters were.
Kairos decided not to question it, instead rushing in to seize the advantage early.
As for Ines, despite having her arm badly injured, she didn’t seem against it either. Lighting began to gather around her body once more, appearing as many tiny little arcs that jumped around her body. She crudely bent her arm, causing it to snap back in the proper orientation.
If a normal person did that, it would probably come off completely, leaving the person armless.
However, the moment the arm was placed back into place, it began to stitch itself together.
Seeing Ines’ impressive regeneration ability, this only furthered his resolve to kill her. Kairos suddenly dashed to the side. As he did, Ines lunged to the spot where he just was.
Kairos wasted no time in spinning around and thrusting his spear forth, piercing into the back of Ines’ heart.
However, despite that, there was a frown on his face.
He quickly pulled his spear out before taking a step backwards, just barely avoiding Ines’ strike as she suddenly whipped around.
Despite not hitting Kairos, and only taking hits herself, Ines didn’t seem the slightest bit discouraged. She let out a deep roar before rushing towards him once more.
Kairos narrowed his eyes before sweeping his spear at Ines’ feet, causing her to trip and fall onto the ground. His spear shot for Ines’ head, but he saw that she dodged.
Despite shifting his trajectory with the information from his future vision, Ines was still able to move out of the way, perhaps with powerful instincts.
Ines then grabbed onto the spear.
Kairos frowned, not expecting this as he couldn’t see it while his future was warping to change. He then abruptly let go of the spear, while his eyes narrowed.
Right when he did, violent currents of lightning suddenly came out of Ines, climbing up the spear despite the fact it didn’t conduct electricity before.
A smile formed on Ines’ face as she tilted her head to the side. It was almost like she was mocking him.
He had lost his weapon.